Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Oh, Rocko! What a surprise! Why of course. When will you be by?"
Like most classic campaigns, Dayan's Sinai triumph rested heavily on surprise. "Nasser disposed his troops very well," said an Israeli colonel. "Egyptian preparations were quite logical. Our plans were not." But more than anything else, the Israelis, inferior to the Egyptians in number and equipment, relied on the...
Tutored by bulky (260 Ibs.) Tommy Prothro, once chief recruiter for U.C.L.A.'s Coach Red Sanders. Oregon State boasted nine California-bred bruisers on its first team. It was no surprise that they played Sanders' type of football: a power-packed single-wing offense that kept right on...
Britain's bombers over Cairo made the really shocking surprise of the week: Russia's conduct in Hungary was more cruel because bigger in the totals of human slaughter, but it was, after all, in character for Communists. Israel could claim the need to break the menacing circle...
So dazzling were the results that generations of critics confidently put the Carracci in a class with the greats: Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian, Correggio, Raphael. But by the 19th century their repute had fallen so far that John Ruskin could dismiss their work contemptuously as "the scum of Titian." Bologna, proud...